Indian culture will be tourist attraction during CWG 2010
The one-hour opening ceremony of Commonwealth Games 2010 will have 9000 artists, dancers and musicians from all walks of life and each corner of India. The closing ceremony will be more about India's martial art forms.
THE OPENING and closing ceremonies of Commonwealth Games 2010 (CWG) will be a truly Indian affair; it won’t like recently concluded FIFA World Cup, where everyone danced to the tunes of Latin American star Shakira’s ‘Waka Waka’ song. In India both the ceremonies will have no foreign influence.
The first eight minutes of the opening ceremony are being performed by ace percussionist Taufiq Qureshi and his group who is known for his style of intricate rhythm structures on instruments like the djembe, duff and the bongos. The eight minutes theme will be ‘The Great Indian Bazzar’.
In total Rs 300 crore will be spent in both the ceremonies. Brains behind all the events are headed by Bharat Bala group and creative team includes Shovana Narayan, Prathibha Prahlad, Uma Ganapati Raju, T S Darbari, Javed Akhtar, Shyam Benegal and Prasoon Joshi. Creative consultant will be Ric Birch from Italy, heads of Spectak Productions. Event will be managed by Wizcraft International Entertainment Private Limited. At the end, fireworks will be performed by Howard and Sons, an Australian firm who were behind the pyrotechnics of Melbourne Games.
Incidentally, the centerpiece of the 2006 Melbourne Games was 11 minutes allotted to India. The Scots, who will host the next edition in Glasgow, would not get a similar time slot this time.
It will give the feeling of ‘how Indian streets sound like’. He have used different rhythm structures to attract the audience, which has every little detail of bazaar and been mish-mashed with sounds like an iron-smith using his hammer etc.
This will be followed by voices of Naga and Baul singers and sounds of Bamboo dancers by Bansi Kaul, a Delhi based theatre director. He has extensive knowledge on folk idioms of India. The next 15 minutes of the opening ceremony with theme ‘Indian seasons’ will have 480 artistes divided into six groups of 80 dancers each performing six Indian classical dance forms: Kathak, Bharatanatyam, Kuchipudi, Odissi, Mohiniattam and Manipuri.
These dance forms were chosen after brainstorming sessions with Bansi Kaul and team headed by Bharat Bala. Each group will be dancing to same beat and few dancers will be on centre stage. Birju Maharaj and Shovana Narayan’s students will perform in this event.
AR Rahman, who is composing the anthem for Commonwealth Games, will also perform in both opening and closing ceremonies. The one-hour opening ceremony will have 9000 artists, dancers and musicians from all walks of life and each corner of India. The closing ceremony will be more about India’s martial art forms. This will include Kerala’s Kalaripayattu, Punjab’s Gatka, Manipuri Thang-ta and Tamil Nadu’s Silambattam. Both ceremonies will be mixed with rural and urban sports and culture of India.
AR Rahman, who is composing the anthem for Commonwealth Games, will also perform in both opening and closing ceremonies. The one-hour opening ceremony will have 9000 artists, dancers and musicians from all walks of life and each corner of India. The closing ceremony will be more about India’s martial art forms. This will include Kerala’s Kalaripayattu, Punjab’s Gatka, Manipuri Thang-ta and Tamil Nadu’s Silambattam. Both ceremonies will be mixed with rural and urban sports and culture of India.
In total Rs 300 crore will be spent in both the ceremonies. Brains behind all the events are headed by Bharat Bala group and creative team includes Shovana Narayan, Prathibha Prahlad, Uma Ganapati Raju, T S Darbari, Javed Akhtar, Shyam Benegal and Prasoon Joshi. Creative consultant will be Ric Birch from Italy, heads of Spectak Productions. Event will be managed by Wizcraft International Entertainment Private Limited. At the end, fireworks will be performed by Howard and Sons, an Australian firm who were behind the pyrotechnics of Melbourne Games.
Incidentally, the centerpiece of the 2006 Melbourne Games was 11 minutes allotted to India. The Scots, who will host the next edition in Glasgow, would not get a similar time slot this time.
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